Welcome to Transformation Talk. Every Thursday for a year, starting in September 2012, I’ll post an interview with someone who is a force for good in the world. These men and women have either deepened their passion or found their calling after experiencing a loss, trauma or diagnosis.

I want to broaden the conversation around grief and its transformative power. My hope is that in their words you’ll find echoes of your story. In their inspired actions, you’ll see yourself and your immense possibility.

*Special Request: The technology of Skype is amazing and imperfect. Please listen with your heart and forgive the occasional blips on the screen.

Today’s interview is with award-winning author, speaker and spiritual teacher Ayn Cates Sullivan. I’m going to say up front that I love this interview and I recognize that it might be challenging for some. Ayn talks about how she and her father healed their cancer and how that led her to follow her heart on a deeply spiritual path, which includes an experience in the divine light. Even if some of her story seems impossible to you, I encourage you to listen through to the end where you’ll find gentle wisdom that can apply to all of us. (Also, Ayn talks about the impact our ancestral line has on us from a spiritual point of view. There is new research in the scientific field of epigenetics that’s saying a similar thing – it’s mind-blowing.)

Bio and link to download the audio version are below. Running time is 46 minutes. If you’re receiving this via email, click through the title to view the video.

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Ayn Cates Sullivan is an inspirational author and teacher with a soul centered
psychology practice. Her many books include Unquenchable Spiritual Fire, The
Windhorse: Poems of Illumination and most recently a children’s book, Sparkle &
The Gift. Ayn’s deepest love is to help end the patterns that cause pain and
suffering, and assist in liberating others so that they can live essential and joyous
lives. She lives in Ojai with her husband and two children.

Find her at AynCatesSullivan.com

Welcome to Transformation Talk. Every Thursday for a year, starting in September 2012, I’ll post an interview with someone who is a force for good in the world. These men and women have either deepened their passion or found their calling after experiencing a loss, trauma or diagnosis.

I want to broaden the conversation around grief and its transformative power. My hope is that in their words you’ll find echoes of your story. In their inspired actions, you’ll see yourself and your immense possibility.

*Special Request: The technology of Skype is amazing and imperfect. Please listen with your heart and forgive the occasional blips on the screen.

This week’s interview is with Erin Giles, business philanthropy expert and founder of End Sex Trafficking Day. While this part of Erin’s story doesn’t include a death or medical diagnosis, many of us feel intense grief during financial struggles. What I love most about Erin’s story is how the simple act of allowing her heart to be deeply touched by an issue led her to taking inspired action, which in turn led to business success all while having a positive impact in the world.

Bio and link to download the audio version are below. Running time is just over 21 minutes. If you’re receiving this via email, click through the title to view the video.

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Erin Giles is the Founder of End Sex Trafficking Day and a Business Philanthropy Consultant who helps businesses find a cause they’re passionate about and create a campaign, so they don’t just have a business, they start a movement. She believes more than ever hope is alive and it’s alive in us. Erin’s been seen on USA Today, Inc, Forbes and Huffington Post. She writes weekly at eringiles.com and happily welcomes tweets at @erinmgiles.

Welcome to Transformation Talk. Every Thursday for a year, starting in September 2012, I’ll post an interview with someone who is a force for good in the world. These men and women have either deepened their passion or found their calling after experiencing a loss, trauma or diagnosis.

I want to broaden the conversation around grief and its transformative power. My hope is that in their words you’ll find echoes of your story. In their inspired actions, you’ll see yourself and your immense possibility.

*Special Request: The technology of Skype is amazing and imperfect. Please listen with your heart and forgive the occasional blips on the screen.

Today’s interview is with writer and square-peg Karen Caterson. I’d known Karen from the world of blogging and when Benjamin was stillborn, she shared with me the story of her son Christopher’s short life and death. This sent her on the path to being a psychotherapist, and eventually to the work she does now with “mindful non-conformists”.

Bio and link to download the audio version are below. Running time is 24 minutes. If you’re receiving this via email, click through the title to view the video.

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In her own words:
Hi! I’m Karen Caterson, aka Square-Peg Karen. Are you a Square-Peg (i.e. mindful nonconformist)? Yes? Great! Let’s get acquainted – come visit me at Square-Peg People, where I encourage celebrating your uniqueness, building an X-treme self-care practice, and focusing on what’s right with you (not what’s wrong with you!).

Welcome to Transformation Talk. Every Thursday for a year, starting in September 2012, I’ll post an interview with someone who is a force for good in the world. These men and women have either deepened their passion or found their calling after experiencing a loss, trauma or diagnosis.

I want to broaden the conversation around grief and its transformative power. My hope is that in their words you’ll find echoes of your story. In their inspired actions, you’ll see yourself and your immense possibility.

*Special Request: The technology of Skype is amazing and imperfect. Please listen with your heart and forgive the occasional blips on the screen.

Today’s interview is with coach and writer, Sas Petherick. The last decade her life has been intimately shaped by grief and loss. She speaks eloquently about the desire to run from these difficult emotions, and the incredible gifts that have come from learning to let them flow through her. I’m honored to have her telling her story here.

Bio and link to download the audio version are below. Running time is 36 minutes. If you’re receiving this via email, click through the title to view the video.

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